ART & MEDITATION
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There are in India
statues, which you have just to sit silently and meditate upon. Just look at
those statues. They have been made by meditators in such a way, in such a
proportion, that just looking at the statue, the figure, the proportion, the
beauty... Everything is very calculated to create a similar kind of state
within you. And just sitting silently with a statue of Buddha or Mahavira, you
will come across a strange feeling, which you cannot find in sitting by the
side of any Western sculpture.
All Western sculpture is sexual. You see
the Roman sculpture: beautiful, but something creates sexuality in you. It hits
your sexual center. It does not give you an uplift. In the East the situation
is totally different. Statutes are carved, but before a sculptor starts carving
statues he learns meditation. Before he starts playing on the flute he learns
meditation. Before he starts writing poetry he learns meditation. Meditation is
absolute necessity for any art; then the art will be objective.
Then,
just reading few lines of a haiku, a Japanese form of a small poem - only three
lines, perhaps three words - if you silently read it, you will be surprised. It
is far more explosive that any dynamite. It simply opens up doors in your
being.
Basho's small haiku I have beside the pond near my house. I love
it so much, I wanted it to be there. So every time, coming and going.... Basho
is one of the persons I have loved. Nothing much in it: An ancient pond.... It
is not an ordinary poetry. It is very pictorial. Just visualize: An ancient
pond. A frog jumps in.... You almost see the ancient pond! You almost hear the
frog, the sound of its jump: Plop.
And then everything is silent. The
ancient pond is there, the frog has jumped in, the sound of his jumping in has
created more silence than before. Just reading it is not like any other poetry
that you go on reading - one poem, another poem... No, you just read it and sit
silently. Visualize it. Close your eyes. See the ancient pond. See the frog.
See it jumping in. See the ripples on the water. Hear the sound. And hear the
silence that follows.
This is objective art.
Basho must have written it in
a very meditative mood, sitting by the
side of an ancient pond, watching a frog. And the frog jumps in. And suddenly
Basho becomes aware of the miracle that sound is deepening the silence. The
silence is more than it was before. This is objective art.
Unless you
are a creator, you will never find real blissfulness. It is only by creating
that you become part of the great creativity of the universe. But to be a
creator, meditation is a basic necessity. Without it you can paint, but that
painting has to be burned, it has not to be shown to others. It was good, it
helped you unburden, but please, don't burden anybody else. Don't present it to
your friends, they are not your enemies.
Objective art is meditative art, subjective art is mind art.
OshO:
from The Last Testament, Volume 3,
#24
www.osho.com
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